Examples of the 1.2 mm continuum emission toward four regions of the LMC sample. The contours show the three, six, and nine times the σ_rms. The identified compact cores are highlighted with white contours at 50% of the peak emission. The synthesized beam of the images and a scale bar are shown in the bottom-left and bottom-right corners of each panel, respectively. See Paper II for more details on the 20 fields observed across the LMC (see Table 1).