Azimuthal north-pole equal-area projection showing the footprint of the SVC fields. Blue and orange circles are objects from the 2MRS catalogue (Huchra et al. 2012) and the Local Volume survey (Karachentsev et al. 2004), respectively. The red dotted line represents a declination of +27°, which is the limit for the Apertif surveys. The five black boxes show the position and size of the SVC survey fields. The blank region represents the Milky Way.