 Royds subsequently rose to become an Admiral and was later Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, London.There is a hut at Cape Royds built and used by Ernest Shackleton and his team during their 1907–1909 expedition.When Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908, having failed to land on King Edward VII Land, he decided to build a hut at Cape Royds, a small promontory twenty-three miles north of Hut Point where Scott had stayed during the Discovery Expedition.