Vintage US Navy Top of the World Certificate Seabees Cold War Barrow Alaska 1950

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The Order of the Top of the World
Certificate issued to
Esther M. Block, 1950.
The exclusive brotherhood known as “The Order of the Top of the World” is considered by the Navy men at Barrow to be more exclusive than the Royal Order of the Polar Bears or the Order of the Blue Noses two other Arctic fraternities.
Top-of-the-worlders claim that one has merely to cross the Arctic Circle at sea in the comfortable quarters of a ship to qualify for the two rival orders.
Membership in The Order of the Top of the World is based solely on the experience of traveling to Barrow— latitude 71° 20' N. This is as far north as a person can get and still be on U. S. soil.
The voyager may have to contend with blizzards or pea-soup fogs if he goes up to Barrow by air.  If he travels by ship through the Bering Strait, he must risk the grinding, ship-crushing Arctic Ocean ice-pack. Sea-going men must steam their vessels into Barrow and out again at full throttle in the short summer, to escape the ice.
Product Dimensions: approximately 13" X 16", shipping weight: 6 ounces.
PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The certificate is in overall Fair to Good Minus used condition with signs of wear, stains, creases, fading, tears, sunning and age toning, soiling, writing, no odors, please see images.
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