1998; Brandner et al. 2001), mid-infrared (mIR; Whitney et al. 2008; Gruendl & Chu 2009; Walborn et al. 2013), far-infrared (fIR; Seale et al. 2014) and sub-millimeter (Johansson et al. 1998; Indebetouw et al. 2013) wavelengths have identified evidence for active star formation throughout the 30 Doradus nebula, consistent with the idea of multiple star formation episodes.

We focus on the stapler nebula that lies 2-14pc away from R136 (see Fig.1) in projection. The stapler nebula is the H[II]{} region including and surrounding the stapler shaped dark cloud that is seen in silhouette in the optical near R136. The nebula spans an area of 1.1$'\times$0.35$'$ centred on $\alpha$=05$^h$38$^m$40$^s$, $\delta\,=\,-$69$^{\rm \circ}$05$'$36$''$ and is elongated with a position angle of 35$^{\rm \circ}$. A candidate young stellar object (YSO) has been reported at the edge of the elongated dark cloud by Walborn et al. (2013; marked as S5 in that paper). The YSO is close to, but not coincident with a region of high density ($n>$10$^{6}$cm$^{-3}$) reported by Rubio et al. (2009) using CS line observations. Known infrared excess objects, some of which are thought to be disc/envelope bearing young stellar objects (YSOs) are dotted towards the edge of the dark cloud according 