Howdy isikora-ga,
The coordinates in question should be written as such: 70°16'N., 180°
That is, with the latitude first, followed by the longitude.
This University of Washington Quaternary Research Center web page gives
us the land mass that is located nearest to the coordinates you provide.
http://depts.washington.edu/qrc/research/arctic/wrangel.htm
"The (Non)-Glacial and Sea Level History of Wrangel Island ... Wrangel
Island (71º 10' N., 180º) is a key region for such an investigation."
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has a project called
"Visible Earth" that provides some images of Wrangel Island from space.
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?9199
"This true-color image ... shows Wrangel Island, which is located off the
northern coast of Eastern Siberia and straddles the East Siberian Sea and
the Chukchi Sea."
The above is south of the Arctic Ocean and around 1600 miles south of the
North Pole. Your coordinates would actually land you in some very cold
water around 70 miles south of Wrangel Island and 100+ miles north of the
Chukchi Range which is in Eastern Siberia.
If the coordinates were instead: 70°16'S., 180° then it would be located
in the Ross Sea near Antarctica, around 200 miles south of Scott Island.
If you need any clarification, feel free to ask.
Search strategy:
Checked one of my (many) atlases.
Google search on: "Wrangel Island" 180°
://www.google.com/search?q=%22Wrangel+Island%22+180%C2%B0
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