Overview of the N159/N160 complex. Top: composite VISTA image (Cioni et al. 2011), combining Y (blue), J (green) and K_s (red) bands. Bottom: composite Spitzer image of N159E and N159W, combining 3.6 μm (blue), 4.5 μm (green) and 8 μm (red). The N159W field targetted by GeMS/GSAOI is shown by the yellow square. Compact clusters discussed in the paper are labelled C1-C5. The positions of the close X-ray binary LMC X-1 and the SNR 0540−697 (Chen et al. 2010) are marked in dash-dotted cyan line and red cross respectively.