Recently, Demers & Battinelli (1998) have shown that the young intercloud stellar aggregates are 10 to 25 Myr old, thus younger than the estimated age (200 Myr) of the last close LMC–SMC encounter (see, e.g., Irwin et al. 1996). These stellar aggregates show a distance gradient that confirms the existence of a “link” between the two Magellanic Clouds. Numerous blue stars have been detected by Demers & Irwin (1991) east of the aggregate ICA76 (the closest to the LMC). These blue stars, that extend to the southwestern periphery of the LMC, may be an aftermath of the close LMC–SMC encounter. Our present study is aimed to survey this SW part of the LMC and to determine the origin of these blue stars.