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[abridged] We describe the first results from the NOAO Outer Limits Survey.The survey consists of deep images of 55 0.6x0.6 degree fields at distances upto 20 degrees from the LMC/SMC, and 10 controls. The fields probe the outerstructure of the Clouds, the Magellanic Stream, the Leading Arm, and the wakeof the new LMC orbit. Images were taken in 5 filters on the CTIO Blanco 4-m andMosaic2 camera, with calibration at the CTIO 0.9-m. The CRI images reach depthsbelow the oldest LMC/SMC main sequence (MS) turnoffs, yielding probes ofstructure combined with ability to measure stellar ages and metallicities. Mand DDO51 images allow for discrimination of LMC and SMC giant stars fromforeground dwarfs, allowing us to use giants as additional probes. Fromphotometry of 8 fields at radii of 7-19 degrees N of the LMC bar, we find MSstars associated with the LMC to 16 degrees from the LMC center, while the muchrarer giants can only be convincingly detected out to 11 degrees. In onecontrol field, we see the signature of the Milky Way globular cluster NGC 1851.The CMDs show that while at 7-degree radius LMC populations as young as 500 Myrare present, at radii more than 11 degrees only the underlying old metal-poorpopulation remains, demonstrating the existence of a population gradient. Evenat extreme distances, the dominant age is much less than "globular Clusterage." MS star counts follow an exponential decline with a scale length of 1.15kpc, essentially the same scale length as gleaned for the inner LMC disk fromprior studies. While we cannot rule out tidal structure elsewhere, detection ofordered structure to 12 disk scale lengths is unprecedented, and adds to thepuzzle of the LMC's interaction history. Our results do not rule out thepossible existence of an LMC stellar halo, which may only dominate the disk atyet larger radii.

First Results from the NOAO Survey of the Outer Limits of the Magellanic Clouds