  We report our initial discovery of 73 new planetary nebulae (PNe) in the
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) following confirmatory 2dF spectroscopy on the
Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). Preliminary candidate sources come from a 10
per cent sub-area of our new deep, high resolution H-alpha map of the central
25 deg. square of the LMC obtained with the UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST). The
depth of the high resolution map was extended to Requiv~22 for H-alpha (4.5 x
10-17 ergs cm-2 s-1 Ang-1) by a process of multi-exposure median co-addition of
a dozen 2-hour H-alpha exposures. The resulting map is at least 1-magnitude
deeper than the best wide-field narrow-band LMC images currently available.
This depth, combined with our selection technique, has also led to the
discovery of extended AGB halos around many new and previously known LMC PNe
for the first time. Once complete, our new survey is expected to triple the LMC
PN population and have significant implications for the LMC PN luminosity
function, kinematics, abundance gradients chemical evolution and, via study of
the AGB halos, the initial to final mass relation for low to intermediate mass
stars.

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