The Culgoora-3 list of radio sources (Slee 1977) contains measurements at 160 MHz of about 2000 sources which had earlier been examined at 80 MHz (Slee and Higgins 1973, 1975). The observations were made with the Culgoora radioheliograph, a 3-km-diameter ring of 96 reflectors, which achieves angular resolutions (full half-power width) of 3′.7 and 1′.9 arc at 80 and 160 MHz respectively; it has an effective collecting area of ~6000 m2.

The reasons for re-surveying the neutral hydrogen in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the results from that survey are briefly discussed in our previous paper (McGee and Newton 1982 — Paper I). We now present the experimental details, the 489 observed line profiles and details of the Gaussian analysis of each one. The profiles here are from the ‘main body’ of the SMC. Those of the ‘bridge region’ between the two Clouds of Magellan will form the basis of a later paper.