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We have made an unbiased survey for molecular clouds in the Galactic Warp.This survey, covering an area of 56 square degrees at l = 252 deg to 266 degand b = -5 deg to -1 deg, has revealed 70 molecular clouds, while only 6 cloudswere previously known in the region. The number of molecular clouds is, then,an order of magnitude greater than previously known in this sector at R > 14.5kpc. The mass of the clouds is in a range from 7.8x10(2) Mo to 8.4x10(4) Mo,significantly less than the most massive giant molecular clouds in the innerdisk, ~10(6) Mo, while the cloud mass spectrum characterized by a power law isbasically similar to other parts of the Galaxy. The X factor, N(H2)/Wco(12CO),derived from the molecular clouds in the Warp is estimated to be 3.5(+/-1.8)times larger than that in the inner disk. The total molecular mass in the Warpis estimated as 7.3x10(5) Mo, and total mass in the far-outer Galaxy (R > 14.5kpc) can be estimated as 2x10(7) Mo. The spatial correlation between the CO andHI distribution appears fairly good, and the mass of the molecular gas is about1% of that of the atomic gas in the far-outer Galaxy. This ratio is similar tothat in the interarm but is ten times smaller than those of the spiral arms.Only 6 of the 70 Warp clouds show signs of star formation at the IRASsensitivity and star formation efficiency for high-mass stars in the Warp isfound to be smaller than those in other molecular clouds in the Galaxy.

An Unbiased Search for Molecular Clouds in the Southern Galactic Warp